Dreamers Rise

From Jude Isabella's article "From Prejudice to Pride," about the history and current state of the Ainu, in the online Hakai ...

This postcard was mailed from Noboribetsu on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on May 12, 1914 and addressed to E. J. Thompkins in Alb...

A couple of footnotes to my last post , on Kayano Shigeru's Our Land Was A Forest. Kayano devotes one chapter of his memoir to his work...

About all I knew about this book when I bought it was what was implied in the title: Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir. The author, Kay...

A recent post at A Journey Round My Skull reminded me about these pamphlets, which were published in the 1930s and early '40s a...

In his preface to Ainu: Creed and Cult , B. Z. Seligman has this to say about the author: Neil Gordon Munro was born in Edinburgh in 1863, w...